This post doesn’t have much to do with the publishing of NEQUA except in some peripheral ways. The book shown here was written by a friend of mine it gives some brief explanation of how to compete with the BIG MONEY BOYS in a political arena. I am referred to as Mork in the book and I must say that the time I spent messing up the plans of the arrogant self elected spenders of public wealth , was some of the most fun and hardest work I ever committed to.

    We actually did stand toe to toe with guys who contributed $3,000,000.00 and spent it all buying T.V. time and newspaper ads. We beat them with $30,000, which is peanuts in today's political arena.
    I especially like to say that the “people who count” those who “Think Big”  the “movers and shakers” all of the cliches used to describe the wealthy, the powerful, the gnomes behind the curtain really take a loss hard. I would always laugh and say “Oh come on it’s only money!!” Of course we rarely ever spent any. One of the best retorts was when we beat a $35,000,000.00 bond issue. The press asked us how much we spent and our answer which was duly noted in the records of our political action committee was $36.82 and thirty dollars was for the party to celebrate.
    Anyhow if you think that you might enjoy rubbing wealth noses in the cat box buy this book and look over the place you live. Democracy and Liberty live on the efforts of the little people.

The big wars and big time lobbyists, are making money for the corporations.

Remember
         (1) the “Bubbas” and “Obamas” are the grease and oil that rise to the top  of clean water. You always get dirty  when dealing with those guys and you always get the bill for everything they do.   
        (2) there is always a curtain and there is always somebody behind the curtain. 
        (3) Always elect someone dumber than yourself .
       
NEQUA contains the same message except they were lucky that the evolution of their thought, removed the oily grease and tore down the curtain early in their history.  We are still suffering the same plight as our forefathers who tried to  change the way things were accomplished.   


You can order the book from www.biblio.com

Several months ago I decided that the location of the office of “Equity” and the publishing headquarters for NEQUA should be closely looked at. My intuition paid off as I found that the demographics of the office location held some very interesting information. I drove to Topeka and easily found 115 east 5th Street, it was a big vacant lot. An example of the advantages of American Urban Renewal.  There isn’t any renewal only an unusable vacant lot.
A call to the Shawnee Public Library had gotten me connected with a man who knew all about buildings in Topeka and also about removed buildings. He said that he was sure that a photograph of the building existed because he remembered that the 115 location was the home of Langston Hughes when he was seven years old. The story was that Langston’s father had gone to Mexico and Langston and his mother were in Topeka where she worked for a Lawyer.  Incidentally Langston was his mothers surname and Hughes was his fathers surname.
When I expressed amazement  at the idea of Langston Hughes living in a commercial building, the gentleman supplying this information said it wasn’t unusual as the area for several blocks was a commercial district that was racially integrated.  By living one block off the main drag of Topeka, Langston’s mother had only a block to walk to work. 
I got a copy of the photograph and it was a concrete and brick two store building with rooms upstairs and a couple of commercial spaces downstairs. This  was “mixed-use”, an existent idea one hundred years ago, before the Urban Developers reinvented the idea in 1960. It allowed for Doctors and Dentists and lawyers to have “offices” in their living quarters.
Well I proceeded to check on the property owner and recheck the construction method, which was concrete with brick facing, meaning that it could have still been in use today if some bureaucrat somewhere had decided that Urban Renewal might include a minor makeover, instead of a scorched earth conclusion.
I went back to the census pages to look at who might inhabit the same building. In addition to Mary Lowe’s family, there was a Dr. Sunday, a black physician, an attorney and two “chinamen.” Obviously a highly integrated area one hundred and fourteen years ago in the middle of Kansas.